Prime-time network TV listings for Friday May 8, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: The Hazzardville Horror
Season 3, episode 2 W: Si Rose D: Jack Whitman With Morgan Brittany (Mary Lou Pringle), Charles Tyner (Claude Billings), Andrew Robinson (Billy Joe Billings), Tammy Wynette (Herself). Bo and Luke come to the aid of beautiful Mary Lou Pringle, who is trying to sell her family's estate but cannot due to rumors that the mansion is haunted. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1980)
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: The Governor's House Call
Season 2, episode 20 W: Bob Colleary, Tom Whedon D: John Rich With Jordan Charney (Jack Beddoes), James Gallery (Scooter McFee), Cynthia Harris (Peggy Rhodes), Hugh Gillin (Dr. Wellmont), Burke Byrnes (Sgt. Tomkins). On his way to a Navy reunion, the Governor, along with Benson and Clayton, stop off at a bordello to visit a sick friend. When a fire breaks out across the street, they are afraid to leave in case someone sees them, and so are trapped inside with a muckraking columnist.
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| [NBC 8:00] Mayday For Mother [special]
W: Hank Ketcham D: David Detiege et al With Larry D. Mann, Elizabeth Kerr, Joey Nagy, Kathy Garver, Nicole Eggert, Bob Holt. A new "Dennis the Menace" animated feature. Dennis winds up in a sea of mischief when he decides to take Mrs. Wilson out for a Mother's Day treat.
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| [ABC 8:30] I'm A Big Girl Now [Reg]: S.M.I.L.E. Everybody
Season 1, episode 19 W: R.J. Colleary D: Jon Sharp When mild-mannered Karen joins a popular self-help group, she becomes an outsopken loudmouth and winds up talking herself out of a job. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 8:30] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: Mail And Female
Season 1, episode 3 W: Jerry Ross D: Alan Myerson With Enid Kent (Mrs. Crowley), Jerry Anderson (Jessie Crowdy), Robert Gray (Cliff Willoughby). Flora and the PTA members keep tabs on Stella by monitoring her mail, but Stella gets even by planting a phony letter from an imaginary middle eastern princess who just happens to be visiting Harper Valley. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/30/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Dallas [Reg]: No More Mister Nice Guy (1)
Season 4, episode 1 W: Arthur Bernard Lewis D: Leonard Katzman With Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing), Michael Alldredge (Detective Horton), Jeanna Michaels (Connie), Karlene Crockett (Muriel Gillis), Tami Barber (Bev), Peter Donat (Dr. Miles Pearson), Christopher Coffey (Greg Forrester), Ray Stewart (Newscaster), Nik Hagler (Detective Frost), Sarah Buchannan (Mrs. Forrester). Season premiere. A cleaning woman finds J.R. unconscious on the floor outside his office -- he's been shot. The police begin to compile a list of suspects. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1980)
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| [ABC 9:00] Battle Of The Network Stars [special]
Howard Cosell and Erin Gray describe the action as 24 celebrities from ABC, CBS and NBC meet in head-to-head athletic competitions.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), part two
W: George Lefferts D: George Schaefer With Ellen Burstyn, Martin Balsam, Richard Dysart, Peter Coyote, Al Ruscio, Priscilla Morrill, Milton Selzer, Alan Manson. Mrs. Harris maintains her innocence in the slaying of her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, and is appalled by personal testimony being read into the trial transcript.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: No More Mister Nice Guy (2)
Season 4, episode 2 W: Arthur Bernard Lewis D: Leonard Katzman With Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Michael Alldredge (Detective Horton), Jeff Cooper (Dr. Simon Elby), Jeanna Michaels (Connie), Fern Fitzgerald (Marilee Stone), Tami Barber (Bev), Peter Donat (Dr. Miles Pearson), Royce D. Applegate (Detective Crabbe), Ray Stewart (Newscaster). J.R. undergoes the helplessness of paralysis as Bobby takes over Ewing Oil with Jock's blessing. Sue Ellen feels guilty that she may have shot J.R. in a drunken stupor and the list of suspects grows. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1980)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Gangster Chronicles [Reg]: Chapter 13
Season 1, episode 13 W: Stephen McPherson, David Assael, Art Eisenson D: Richard C. Sarafian Bugsy Siegel sets out to kill the man who arranged an attempt on his life, and Luciano and Lasker persuade Huey Long to allow them to operate in Louisiana. (Last show of the series.)
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